W. A. Parent on Privacy

"Privacy is the condition of not having undocumented personal knowledge about one possessed by others."

personal information = "facts which most individuals in a given society choose not to reveal about themselves (except to close friends . . .) or . . . about which a particular individual is acutely sensitive . . ."

public record = "newspapers, court proceedings, and other official documents open to public inspection."

documented: "I will ... refer to personal facts belonging to the public record as documented."


Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 15 June 2010